Massoud Karshenas
Biographic Data
| ID | 105599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massoud Karshenas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massoud |
| FAMILY NAME | Karshenas |
| SIGNATURE | KARSHENAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4934-634X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Explains Iran’s Low Female Labor Force Participation
That women’s labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been consistently low is well known, but explanations vary as to the principal causes. Moreover, many studies examine the female economically active population in aggregate, without sociodemographic distinctions. The puzzle is why women remain under-represented in Iran’s labor force despite high educational attainment, later marriage, smaller family size, and the country’s…
Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran
Journal Article Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’ Etat. Get access Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’ Etat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 215. Paper $44.99. Massoud Karshenas Massoud Karshenas SOAS University of London, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, I…
Power, Ideology and Global Development
UNCTAD was created in 1964 as a forum for strategic thinking about international trade and development issues and for identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for policy coordination and international cooperation with the participation of both developing and industrialized countries. The history of UNCTAD, with its successes and failures, therefore, is closely intertwined with the history of ideas on trade and development and the interplay o…
Social Policy after the Arab Spring
Bringing social policy back in
This article examines the evolution of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during three periods: the post‐colonial and oil‐boom period, the post‐oil period of structural adjustment, and the more recent oil‐boom period. Drawing attention to key factors that shaped both social policy and the region's lack of competitiveness during the current global era, the authors argue for a new social development strategy that would put the…
Oil, Economic Diversification and the Democratic Process in Iran
Since 1979, Iran has witnessed important socio-economic and institutional changes and has been affected by significant economic and political upheavals. These years have witnessed a succession of oil booms and busts, external war, trade sanctions and of course, more recently, heightened internal strife within the state. After 25 years, however, Iran's political outlook seems opaque to most observers and the economic record is equally lacklustre w…
Urban Bias', Intersectoral Resource Flows and the Macroeconomic Implications of Agrarian Relations
It is argued that agrarian relations play a critical role in the pattern of intersectoral resource flows and the way in which the agricultural sector shapes the macroeconomy in developing countries. The notion of 'urban bias' used by GKI is defective in its abstracting from the pre-existing agrarian system and from the prevailing institutions and in focussing on one simple set of influences outside the agricultural sector itself, i.e. government …
Global Poverty
This article examines the dollar-a-day poverty estimates produced by the World Bank. It highlights the lack of consistency between average consumption and income in household surveys and national accounts data. After examining the likely sources of divergence between the two series, the author proposes a new method of estimation of poverty, based on calibrating the survey means by conditioning on national accounts aggregates. The new poverty esti…
Relative prices and the international comparison of real agricultural output and productivity
This article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture in cross-country panel studies. We show that various multilateral output indices used by different researchers can have considerable disparities, thus rendering the comparison of the final results problematic. The production indices produced by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) are increasingly u…
Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias
1996). Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 24, Agrarian Questions Essays in Appreciation of T.J. Byres, pp. 60-102
Environment, Technology and Employment
This article analyses the interrelations between environment, employment and technology in the process of development. A new concept of sustainable development is introduced which makes a distinction between environmental problems associated with high income levels and technological progress and those related to underdevelopment and technological stagnation. The latter category accounts for a major proportion of environmental problems facing poor…
Concepts and measurement of agricultural surplus
A new accounting framework for the measurement of intersectoral resource flows is presented. Different definitions of agricultural surplus are discussed and the conceptual and measurement problems involved in empirical estimation are examined. The framework is used to obtain new estimates of net agricultural surplus from the financial side for Iran. These estimates confirm the results of earlier partial studies, that there was a large and growing…
Oil income, industrialisation bias, and the agricultural squeeze hypothesis
The widely held view that Iranian industrialisation policies during the 1962-77 period led to a squeeze of resources out of the agricultural sector is re-examined. Measurements of internal terms of trade and net agricultural resource flows are presented for the first time, which show a sizeable resource inflow into the agricultural sector. It is argued that the agricultural policy problem was a consequence of inefficient resource use in this sect…
Social Policy after the Arab Spring
Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias
1996). Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 24, Agrarian Questions Essays in Appreciation of T.J. Byres, pp. 60-102
Urban Bias', Intersectoral Resource Flows and the Macroeconomic Implications of Agrarian Relations
It is argued that agrarian relations play a critical role in the pattern of intersectoral resource flows and the way in which the agricultural sector shapes the macroeconomy in developing countries. The notion of 'urban bias' used by GKI is defective in its abstracting from the pre-existing agrarian system and from the prevailing institutions and in focussing on one simple set of influences outside the agricultural sector itself, i.e. government …
Oil, Economic Diversification and the Democratic Process in Iran
Since 1979, Iran has witnessed important socio-economic and institutional changes and has been affected by significant economic and political upheavals. These years have witnessed a succession of oil booms and busts, external war, trade sanctions and of course, more recently, heightened internal strife within the state. After 25 years, however, Iran's political outlook seems opaque to most observers and the economic record is equally lacklustre w…
Environment, Technology and Employment
This article analyses the interrelations between environment, employment and technology in the process of development. A new concept of sustainable development is introduced which makes a distinction between environmental problems associated with high income levels and technological progress and those related to underdevelopment and technological stagnation. The latter category accounts for a major proportion of environmental problems facing poor…
Oil income, industrialisation bias, and the agricultural squeeze hypothesis
The widely held view that Iranian industrialisation policies during the 1962-77 period led to a squeeze of resources out of the agricultural sector is re-examined. Measurements of internal terms of trade and net agricultural resource flows are presented for the first time, which show a sizeable resource inflow into the agricultural sector. It is argued that the agricultural policy problem was a consequence of inefficient resource use in this sect…
Bringing social policy back in
This article examines the evolution of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during three periods: the post‐colonial and oil‐boom period, the post‐oil period of structural adjustment, and the more recent oil‐boom period. Drawing attention to key factors that shaped both social policy and the region's lack of competitiveness during the current global era, the authors argue for a new social development strategy that would put the…
Power, Ideology and Global Development
UNCTAD was created in 1964 as a forum for strategic thinking about international trade and development issues and for identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for policy coordination and international cooperation with the participation of both developing and industrialized countries. The history of UNCTAD, with its successes and failures, therefore, is closely intertwined with the history of ideas on trade and development and the interplay o…
Relative prices and the international comparison of real agricultural output and productivity
This article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture in cross-country panel studies. We show that various multilateral output indices used by different researchers can have considerable disparities, thus rendering the comparison of the final results problematic. The production indices produced by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) are increasingly u…
Global Poverty
This article examines the dollar-a-day poverty estimates produced by the World Bank. It highlights the lack of consistency between average consumption and income in household surveys and national accounts data. After examining the likely sources of divergence between the two series, the author proposes a new method of estimation of poverty, based on calibrating the survey means by conditioning on national accounts aggregates. The new poverty esti…
Concepts and measurement of agricultural surplus
A new accounting framework for the measurement of intersectoral resource flows is presented. Different definitions of agricultural surplus are discussed and the conceptual and measurement problems involved in empirical estimation are examined. The framework is used to obtain new estimates of net agricultural surplus from the financial side for Iran. These estimates confirm the results of earlier partial studies, that there was a large and growing…
Oil income, industrialisation bias, and the agricultural squeeze hypothesis
The widely held view that Iranian industrialisation policies during the 1962-77 period led to a squeeze of resources out of the agricultural sector is re-examined. Measurements of internal terms of trade and net agricultural resource flows are presented for the first time, which show a sizeable resource inflow into the agricultural sector. It is argued that the agricultural policy problem was a consequence of inefficient resource use in this sect…
Environment, Technology and Employment
This article analyses the interrelations between environment, employment and technology in the process of development. A new concept of sustainable development is introduced which makes a distinction between environmental problems associated with high income levels and technological progress and those related to underdevelopment and technological stagnation. The latter category accounts for a major proportion of environmental problems facing poor…
Concepts and measurement of agricultural surplus
A new accounting framework for the measurement of intersectoral resource flows is presented. Different definitions of agricultural surplus are discussed and the conceptual and measurement problems involved in empirical estimation are examined. The framework is used to obtain new estimates of net agricultural surplus from the financial side for Iran. These estimates confirm the results of earlier partial studies, that there was a large and growing…
Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias
1996). Dynamic economies and the critique of urban bias. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 24, Agrarian Questions Essays in Appreciation of T.J. Byres, pp. 60-102
Relative prices and the international comparison of real agricultural output and productivity
This article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture in cross-country panel studies. We show that various multilateral output indices used by different researchers can have considerable disparities, thus rendering the comparison of the final results problematic. The production indices produced by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) are increasingly u…
Global Poverty
This article examines the dollar-a-day poverty estimates produced by the World Bank. It highlights the lack of consistency between average consumption and income in household surveys and national accounts data. After examining the likely sources of divergence between the two series, the author proposes a new method of estimation of poverty, based on calibrating the survey means by conditioning on national accounts aggregates. The new poverty esti…
Urban Bias', Intersectoral Resource Flows and the Macroeconomic Implications of Agrarian Relations
It is argued that agrarian relations play a critical role in the pattern of intersectoral resource flows and the way in which the agricultural sector shapes the macroeconomy in developing countries. The notion of 'urban bias' used by GKI is defective in its abstracting from the pre-existing agrarian system and from the prevailing institutions and in focussing on one simple set of influences outside the agricultural sector itself, i.e. government …
Oil, Economic Diversification and the Democratic Process in Iran
Since 1979, Iran has witnessed important socio-economic and institutional changes and has been affected by significant economic and political upheavals. These years have witnessed a succession of oil booms and busts, external war, trade sanctions and of course, more recently, heightened internal strife within the state. After 25 years, however, Iran's political outlook seems opaque to most observers and the economic record is equally lacklustre w…
Bringing social policy back in
This article examines the evolution of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during three periods: the post‐colonial and oil‐boom period, the post‐oil period of structural adjustment, and the more recent oil‐boom period. Drawing attention to key factors that shaped both social policy and the region's lack of competitiveness during the current global era, the authors argue for a new social development strategy that would put the…
Social Policy after the Arab Spring
Power, Ideology and Global Development
UNCTAD was created in 1964 as a forum for strategic thinking about international trade and development issues and for identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for policy coordination and international cooperation with the participation of both developing and industrialized countries. The history of UNCTAD, with its successes and failures, therefore, is closely intertwined with the history of ideas on trade and development and the interplay o…
Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran
Journal Article Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’ Etat. Get access Ervand Abrahamian. Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’ Etat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 215. Paper $44.99. Massoud Karshenas Massoud Karshenas SOAS University of London, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, I…
What Explains Iran’s Low Female Labor Force Participation
That women’s labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been consistently low is well known, but explanations vary as to the principal causes. Moreover, many studies examine the female economically active population in aggregate, without sociodemographic distinctions. The puzzle is why women remain under-represented in Iran’s labor force despite high educational attainment, later marriage, smaller family size, and the country’s…
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